Análise comparativa entre a dosagem do lactato no líquor e sua detecção atráves da espectroscopia de prótons por ressonância magnética / Comparative analysis between lactate biochemical dosage in cerebrospinal fluid and its detection by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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2010

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INTRODUCTION: The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lactate biochemical dosage is a routine and a requisite procedure to evaluate and to monitor many neurological diseases, such as mitochondrial disease (MD). Patients with MD and central nervous system (CNS) involvement, usually show an increase of CSF lactate. Another choice to study the lactate instead of CSF biochemical dosage is the CSF magnetic resonance proton spectroscopy (SRM), a noninvasive technique, which can be employed as an adjunct tool with structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Our objective is to study the correlation between the CSF and blood lactate dosages and the SRM lactate quantification in patients under investigation for the MD encephalopathy. To our knowledge there is no report of similar studies in vivo in the literature. METHODS: 22 patients (aging 9 months to 20 years old) under investigation for MD encephalopathy were elected for this prospective study between November 2005 and December 2006. The lactate levels were analyzed by biochemical dosages in the CSF and blood serum. Brain MRI was performed for all patients and the lactate peak (LP) obtained from SRM was analyzed. All lactate level data obtained from the three different sources were compared. RESULTS: The statistical analysis demonstrated a correlation between the LP at SRM and the CSF lactate dosage (p=0.0001); no correlation was observed between the LP and the blood lactate (p=0.736) as well the blood lactate and CSF lactate (p=0.937). CONCLUSION: Our study showed correlation between the lactate level in the CSF biochemical dosage and the LP found on SRM. The CSF SRM is tangible technique and we recommend it to be applied in the daily clinical practice to evaluate suspicious and diagnosed CNS compromised ME patients.

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magnetic resonance spectroscopy lactic acid brain diseases ressonância magnética líquido cefalorraquidiano magnetic resonance mitochondria cerebrospinal fluid espectroscopia de ressonância magnética mitocôndrias Ácido láctico central nervous system encefalopatias sistema nervoso central

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